1966's Fifth
Reunion—"a gathering of friends or associates after separation"—was just that for 93 members of the Class of 1966 and more than 60 wives, children and guests who basked in a weekend of summer sunshine, nostalgia and the promise of future accomplishment in Hanover, June 16 to 18 at our Fifth.
Terry Lowd, Wyalusing, Pa.'s answer to Pearl Mesta, aided and abetted by Beth, orchestrated a well-paced schedule of activities that permitted moderate doses of current College affairs, Dartmouth style culture, New Hampshire scenery and those ever present kegs, and ample opportunity for picking up loose ends of strong friendships that time had only slightly tarnished.
It's true. Classmates do come to Reunion from near and far. Like Jeff and LeslieWheeler who strolled over to our Massachusetts Row headquarters from Prospect St., and Chuck and Jane Wadell and Sharon and Larry Goss who rode down the hill from Sachem Village. And take John Hughes, from Kailua, Hawaii, Gwenand Allan Anderson from San Francisco, Jim Modisette of Pasadena, Calif., or Nancy and Jack Stebe, up from Mesa, Ariz.
Sixty-sixes found their way up the new interstates from the Big Town—Chris andErv Burkholder, Paul Doscher, GaylordHitchcock, Hera and Dave Johnston,Betsy and Jim Lustenader, Bonnie andRick Reiss, and Lee Sandler all from New York—and from the Little Towns—Tom and Betsy Brady (Sylvania, Ohio), Gigi and Jim Hazard (Walnut Creek, Calif.), Allen Keiswetter (Great Bend, Kan.), Jo and Tom Noyes (Painted Post, N.Y.) and Lynn and George Trumbull (Warehouse Point, Conn.).
Former Pea Greeners now arrived as Doctors, Mike and Janice Danzig and Linda and Walt Harrison; Lawyers, Gus and Edie King; and Doug Scarff; and Businessmen, Wayne and Kathy LoCurto, Bob and Karen Serenbetz, Rheta and Harry Santangelo.
The formal program consisted of a reception for all reunioning classes ('67 and '68 celebrated their Fifth with us and the 25 year class, 1947, was the main attraction) in Leverone followed by a buffet supper. President Kemeny opened his spacious garden for an informal visit and then the Glee Club conjured up old memories with their Ivy-oriented selections.
Saturday the ubiquitous and eloquent President fielded questions in Spaulding before our own Rev. J. Chandler Newton presided over a Memorial Service and Psychology Professor Rogers Elliot spent 40 entertaining minutes avoiding his topic, "Future Shock and the Dartmouth Experience."
It was all afternoon at Storrs Pond munching burgers and sipping beer, before more refined sipping and munching at a Hanover Inn cocktail party and dinner. Then they turned "The Spice" on in our Class Tent for stomping till two.
Rog Kline concluded six years as Class President by presiding at an executive committee meeting, at which Bill Higgins, our Class Agent, also stepped down.
Al Ryan was elected Class President and will serve until our tenth, in 1976. Your secretary will keep his Smith-Corona out of hock for another four years. Gerry Paul replaced retiring treasurer Mike Nadel, who reported that we are financially solvent. Dave Dubrow maintains his important post of Newsletter Editor and Caleb Loring will take over as Head Class Agent. A 19-man executive group, nominated by Rick MacMillan's Nominating Committee, includes Ryan, Geiger, Paul, Loring, Kline, Higgins, Paul Babcock, Dick Blacklow, Richard Daly, Ed Dailey, Bill Duval, Jeff Futter, Doug Greenwood, Russ Kulp, Steve Lanfer, Terry Lowd, Hector Montroni, Doug Scarff, and John Pearson.
Al Ryan, a lawyer and former disc jockey, is a captain in the U.S. Marine Corps, and will be headquartered in Washington for most of the next two years following special Judge Advocate Office training in Newports, R.I. Sally Ryan works for HEW in the Capital.
Under Al's leadership we'll all work to maintain our fine record of accomplishment on behalf of the College. And if there's one thing we learned from Reunion it's this—they're fun, they work, and they're certainly worth it. And we're lucky. We've got another in less than four years.
Serious consideration was given to the1966 Reunion and Rev. J. Chandler Newton by a young man with short hair.
CLASS SECRETARY
